Job Description

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the "why" of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we\'re integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow.

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.
Your Impact:

Thriving communities. Healthy cities. A brighter future.

At Jacobs, what we do is more than a job, we work every day to make the world better for all.

Our People & Places Solutions business - reinforces our drive to improve the lives of people everywhere and epitomizes the \xe2\x80\x9cwhy\xe2\x80\x9d of what we do - the tremendous positive impact and value our solutions bring to our communities and society as a whole. From facilities delivering life-saving therapies and ensuring clean water to enabling the connection of people through all modes of transportation and providing access to technology - we\'re integrating a multitude of these solution elements to build the smart environments of tomorrow. Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.

We seek a talented Professional Services Writer with relevant experience to join our growing team and work collaboratively with the Asia Pacific Middle East Strategic Advisory Teams. As a Professional Services Writer, you\'ll help prepare high quality executive level public facing written deliverables as part of short-term local projects to long-term, complex programs that encompass work around the globe.

You will help our Advisory teams translate complex and complicated concepts, challenges and solutions into key messages relatable and relevant to specific audiences (primarily at executive level within our clients). From writing, to revising for a unified voice, to editing for clarity and consistency, you have the fundamental skills to articulate why and how our clients need to respond to specific challenge or opportunity. You\'re a self-starter, eager to demonstrate your creative communication solutions, tackling challenges, crushing deadlines, and far exceeding client expectations along the way. Your collaboration with graphic design, document publishing, and advisory team members will contribute to the success of your team and polish the brand of #OurJacobs.

To be successful in this role, you should be proficient in:

• Microsoft Office (especially Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Adobe publishing programs (specifically Acrobat)
• Standard editing conventions, such as those in the current edition of The Chicago Manual of Style or the Associated Press Stylebook or equivalent
• Grammatical rules of American English, clear and concise writing, and references and citations
• Shared workspace platforms (SharePoint and Teams), visual mediums, and delivery options
• Section 508/WCAG Accessibility Compliance requirements are a plus

• Bachelor\'s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Experience editing technical (non-IT) , industry-based documents in a professional environment (preferably in consulting & advisory)
• Experience writing content (in collaboration with subject matter experts) for executive level audiences and/or publicly facing reports released by Governments on critical issues/challenges

• Experience combining the contributions of multiple technical authors to create narratives with a unified \xe2\x80\x9cvoice\xe2\x80\x9d
• Experience managing various aspects of document development (developing outlines and templates, managing files and version control, establishing and communicating program standards and styles, adhering to budget and schedule, and communicating with project teams and colleagues in various venues)
• Demonstrated time management skills, to include completing work on time, scaling your approach to suit the project schedule, collaborating with colleagues to balance workload, and relying on standard processes and tools to make your time as efficient as possible
• A commitment to providing the best quality work you can in the time provided for the work, to include engaging in quality reviews and implementing feedback
• Ideally a background in one or more of the following industry sectors - water, environment, transport, cities, energy and power
• Past experience in preparing high-quality written reports relating to one or more of the following areas - climate change, decarbonisation, digital technologies, organisational and industry transformation, inclusion and diversity, economic and social public policy
• Bachelor\'s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or related discipline from an accredited college or university
• Experience editing technical (non-IT) , industry-based documents in a professional environment (preferably in consulting & advisory)
• Experience writing content (in collaboration with subject matter experts) for executive level audiences and/or publicly facing reports released by Governments on critical issues/challenges
• Experience combining the contributions of multiple technical authors to create narratives with a unified \xe2\x80\x9cvoice\xe2\x80\x9d
• Experience managing various aspects of document development (developing outlines and templates, managing files and version control, establishing and communicating program standards and styles, adhering to budget and schedule, and communicating with project teams and colleagues in various venues)
• Demonstrated time management skills, to include completing work on time, scaling your approach to suit the project schedule, collaborating with colleagues to balance workload, and relying on standard processes and tools to make your time as efficient as possible
• A commitment to providing the best quality work you can in the time provided for the work, to include engaging in quality reviews and implementing feedback
• Ideally a background in one or more of the following industry sectors - water, environment, transport, cities, energy and power
• Past experience in preparing high-quality written reports relating to one or more of the following areas - climate change, decarbonisation, digital technologies, organisational and industry transformation, inclusion and diversity, economic and social public policy

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